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StudioAC inserts plywood unit complete with dog bed into Toronto home

October 31, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

A sleeping area for the family dog is the focal point of this house in Toronto, which Canadian architecture firm StudioAC renovated using a plywood insertion to add storage space. The two-storey Sheridan Residence, measuring 1,500 square metres (139 square feet), was fully renovated by the local firm. They added a unit built from plywood

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Carney Logan Burke spends five years creating Wyoming retreat clad in cedar and steel

October 31, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

This residence and nearby guest house for a principal of Carney Logan Burke Architects are meant to sensitively respond to their setting: a forested site that looks toward a verdant valley and towering peaks. The Fish Creek Compound is located on a five-acre (two-hectare) site in western Wyoming, near the village of Wilson. Consisting of a

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Anik Péloquin creates contemporary addition for historic cottage in rural Quebec

October 30, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Montreal architect Anik Péloquin has built an angular extension to a quaint cottage in Canada, with an off-kilter roof and white-washed interiors. The project titled The Sisters, or Les Soeurs in French, involved creating more space for a Canadian house built in the 1930s. The owners purchased the cottage six years ago, and lived there

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Undulating balconies to wrap 3XN’s condos on Toronto waterfront

October 30, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Danish firm 3XN has won a competition to build a residential complex in Toronto, which will comprise a pair of tower peaks covered in rippling terraces based on the waves of the nearby lake. Developers Tridel and Hines organised the contest for the condominium as part of its transformation of the East Bayfront, a former industrial

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Faulkner Architects wraps Northern California home in weathering steel

October 30, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

For a site just outside of San Francisco, American studio Faulkner Architects has created a family residence clad in Corten steel panels and shaded by large oak trees. The residence, called Miner Road, is located in the town of Orinda, on a gently sloping site at the base of the Oakland Hills. The property encompasses

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Giant pivoting door connects Columbia Road extension to secluded rear courtyard

October 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A frameless glass roof panel connects with a window to allow natural light to flood this extension added to the rear of a Victorian house in east London by The D*Haus Company. The house is located on Columbia Road, which hosts a famous weekly flower market in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Local studio The

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Arched openings punctuate brick-clad house in Seoul by Tectonics Lab

October 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

South Korean studio Tectonics Lab has completed a house for a retired professor in Seoul, featuring pale brick facades interrupted by arching windows that frame views from rooms arranged around a skylit parlour. The studio founded by architects Hyundai and Sukyung Kim designed Cheongun Residence for a site in the South Korean capital’s historic Cheongun neighbourhood that

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Arched openings punctuate brick-clad house in Seoul by Tectonics Lab

October 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

South Korean studio Tectonics Lab has completed a house for a retired professor in Seoul, featuring pale brick facades interrupted by arching windows that frame views from rooms arranged around a skylit parlour. The studio founded by architects Hyundai and Sukyung Kim designed Cheongun Residence for a site in the South Korean capital’s historic Cheongun neighbourhood that

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Arched openings punctuate brick-clad house in Seoul by Tectonics Lab

October 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

South Korean studio Tectonics Lab has completed a house for a retired professor in Seoul, featuring pale brick facades interrupted by arching windows that frame views from rooms arranged around a skylit parlour. The studio founded by architects Hyundai and Sukyung Kim designed Cheongun Residence for a site in the South Korean capital’s historic Cheongun neighbourhood that

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Arjaan De Feyter creates round monochrome living spaces in former silo building near Antwerp

October 29, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Interior architect Arjaan De Feyter has completed the renovation of an apartment built across four old silos in a former malting distillery in Belgium. Located just outside Antwerp, the canal-side silo building is part of a former malting distillery that has been regenerated by by Axel Vervoordt Real Estate. Belonging to a couple with grown-up

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